IN 1995, Mr K. Gangadharan Tamil Salyan had just turned 20, but he already knew how he would mark his 21st birthday: He was going to have a party in a hotel, with disco lights, he told everyone.
The lively young man was his adoptive mother's pride and joy.
He never made it to his 21st birthday. He never even made it to work on Aug 18, 1995, when the motorcycle on which he was riding pillion crashed into a car and threw him off.